Entire Family of Dead Palestinians Found to be Alive

The New Statesman‘s almost 4,000 word report from Gaza by Donald Macintyre graphically illustrates the unreliability of Palestinian casualty reports. The report includes this paragraph:

At least Yasser did not suffer the fate of another single survivor brought into al-Shifa Hospital, ten-year-old Mohammed Badran. He was blinded in an Israeli air strike but at the hospital he seemed unaware that his entire family had been killed when a missile destroyed their home at the Nuseirat refugee camp. Not understanding the nature of his injury, he repeatedly asked staff, “Why have you switched the lights off?”

However, at the very end of Macintyre’s piece is an update which tells us that Badran’s “entire family” were not, in fact, killed in that air strike:

Update, 12 August: Mohammed Badran’s family turned out not to have been killed in the strike on his home, as had been reported here. In the confusion of a packed Shifa Hospital, the doctors treating him in the burns unit thought he had lost his parents and all his siblings. In fact, although seven of the Badrans’ nine children were also injured in the attack, including their 17-year-old daughter Eman, who is now also in Shifa with serious leg injuries, Mohammed’s parents Tagorid and Nidal Badran both survived to take care of him. That is until Nidal, 44, a policeman, was killed in another air strike, this time on the Qassam mosque in Nusseirat refugee camp, in the early hours of Saturday, 9 August, as he prepared to attend dawn prayers. On 12 August, I was told that Mohammed was being referred to a Spanish hospital for treatment.

Between the fog of war and Hamas’s deliberate distortion of casualty figures, can any of these reports on the alleged deaths of alleged Palestinian civilians be trusted?

I still don’t understand how any rational human being can side with Hamas? They are clearly the aggressor’s in this conflict and have been ALL OVER the world, when will people get out of their trance and wake up

the truth is that the majority of liberal leftist media CHOOSES not to show real facts…it wont make any sensational headlines and their arab sponsors wont appreciate the light of truth to shine on their wicked ways….no point in getting worked up…jew hatred is a WILLFULL CHOICE without any logic or rationale and is demonic…God will watch over His chosen and avenge them, until then lets be our (jewish) brothers keeper….ZION IS FOREVER

Let me to remind all that Israel is not at war with the Arabs or with Islam, this is not a religious conflict, Israel has demonstrated willingness to negotiate a generous Peace. The conflict is against Hamas and the terrorists groups that are enemies of all sides. Israel has brave Muslim Soldiers and plenty of loyal Arab citizens. In the heat of the discussion many incorrect things are expressed that are not precisely part of Judaism, we are commanded not to hate anyone and not to be angry to the point of blindness. The terrorists may think that they have a good strategy by lying, cheating, threatening and getting “good” mediocre Media (Medium? Half?) The fact is clear the vociferous and rowdy anti-Semitic demonstrations do not show decent people. Regardless of the Mediocre Media, today many Arab and Muslims started to speak out against Hamas, Most of Israel’s supporters still understand Israel’s need to defend its population. We are not to convince the rabid fanatics that pretend not to be anti-Semites and try to disguise as “anti-Israelis” Anyway, it is important to present the facts without bias and acknowledging the fact that we still have the ethical standing among decent people. As we know the paper can take anything and it is up to us to point the true facts. The Media will destroy its credibility if continues the present path, credibility is extremely important and that only comes with honest reporting. So Israel will survive this crisis and continue the search for Peace. All the reference to death is ugly when without respect for life Hamas tries their tragedy as another piece in their arsenal a very murderous strategy that eventually will backfire because it is unsustainable for to long. Since the reports don’t mention the criminal deaths we can figure that the sources are tainted and unreliable and the character assassination will not succeed in the long run. Egypt and most of the Arab leaders already have criticized Hamas and their terrorists groups, something that was unthinkable until recently, that is a defeat for terrorism and a great one to that effect.

You are a monster. These were what the DOCTORS thought happened to the 10 year old boy who suffered injuries as well as his sister. This was quoted by you directly. The headline of this pathetic blog is “Honest” reporting “Defending” Israel from media bias. Just like Fox News is “fair and balanced.”

You really can’t end this with questioning Hamas distortion when you yourself are really doing that. How can we trust YOU when YOU are the one trying to update this happier ending as “more Palestinian lies.”

Then let the UN and the international community put a peacekeeping force in Palestine and stop the settlements. It’s always easy to find unverified flaws in reporting, but harder to look confirmed tragedies in the face. As the conflict has shown, reporting is not just biased towards Israel, the bias is racist in nature too. Honest reporting would be materially fair.

They also report Gaza “children” deaths up to the age of 17yo (there was a picture of the list in the British The Inependent few days ago). However, killed Israeli 16 yo guy they do not report as a child.

Most of the mainstream media gets its numbers of injured from the UN Human Rights Office, which is headed up by a blatant anti-Semite, Navi Pillay, so all those numbers are — to use the legal term — fruit of a poisonous tree. Until this changes, no, we cannot trust these numbers.

Still not a single report explaining the multitude of photographs showing Gaza children as soldiers with automatic weapons. In the US it would bring outrage and non-stop reporting on the evils of the NRA. But when in Gaza it’s completely ignored. Nevertheless, it’s an international war crime to use child soldiers.

The N.Y. Times admitted and apologized for publishing “Journalistic Malpractice.” You might want to read for yourself what they said. They hires mathematicians and Statisticians to go over the reports of casualtie given to them by Hamas and concluded that the numbers had no possibility of being correct when the population ov various groups were acoounted for in relationship to the unverified numbers of child casualties, adult men, etc.

The N.Y.Times experts said that in all probability most of the dead were between 20 and 29 years of age and very few were children. The BBC and CNN then all followed suit and wrote that the figures on casualties from Hamas were untrue. A lot of good it does now. After publishing unverified baloney and turning people against Israel for false reasons thy come out with one article excusing themselves as if that is good enough.

The media is at fault for feeding this war. As long as they continue to omit major portions of the story, Hamas will continue with their lies and abuse of the Palestinians people. The crux of the problem is the ignorant and uninformed people who can;t think for themselves and refuse to research the truth when so much evidence is available to them. You also have the closet anti-Semitics who have used this war to scream their sentiments of dislike for a people and religion they know nothing about. Ignorance is the downfall of society. Children are not born with prejudice. Prejudice and hate are taught to them on a daily basis and their minds are poisoned before they have a chance to think for themselves. What other religion teaches its youth to hate and kill another person? The Muslim ideology is barbaric and evil, to say the least.

Whilst I do agree there is a lot of media bias against Israel, I don’t think that the above is a very good example, the family were hardly found all alive and well and I don’t think that on hearing all the facts people will change their views and think ‘well that’s ok then!’ I believe in our desire to defend Israel, sometimes we loose our perspective which is important for us to maintain. We all want peace and being dismissive of human suffering doesn’t bring that goal closer. That said the Israeli army does more than any other in the world to prevent civilian casualties and what can it do when up against an enemy who uses civilian deaths for propaganda.

A major part of islam is deception lies and falsified evidence, a prime example of how effective these lies can be is obama whose lies and deception have raised this Islamic scumbag to the highest achieveable rank one can attain in the USA the American people are now realising what a tragic mistake they have made by giving this inbred camel jockey any credibility and will hopefully eject and punish severely this inbred upstart who for a time fooled the usa

Meanwhile, Obama is trying to halt arms being sold to Israel. I’ve grown to despise these people more and more with each passing hour. This war against Israel was launched on social media and has proved to be very successful. How many Islamabots have you come in contact with today?

That they weren’t killed and only all injured, some badly, isn’t something to be proud of; for either side. Unfotunely, Hamas isn’t going to change and at this point Netanyahu shouldn’t. Maybe the new “pause” in the fighting will bring something we CAN be proud of.

so much for the ‘honest and un-biased’ reporting … Time and again too many broadcasters in the West are excelling in choosing sides in a conflict. Honest and unbiased reporting, the way the media should do, is a thing of the past. Sensationalism, innuendo and downright lies are trump! OOPS indeed! Shame on you, you lousy, unprofessional reporters! You are a disgrace for misinforming, specially those who because of no fault of their own, are ignorant and thus can only form an opinion on the base of what you dish up. What a sorry lot you are!

The West wants to believe everything Hamas tells them. Hamas are very aware of this and naturally, exploit the propaganda chance to lie, distort and exaggerate. ‘Facts’ don’t exist for Hamas. Reporters are forbidden to mention or photograph ‘militants’ (terrorists), so the number of dead is lumped in with the terrorists. Only Al Jezeera (!) showed that 80% of the ‘civilians’ were in fact young men aged between 17 – 25 years. Fighting age.

This is the state of journalism today. They all try to get news out fast with no confirmation. And very often they get it wrong. Would it have been so bad to confirm the facts first? One might as well forget about the news because of all the errors.

A miracle! Or maybe the fate of liars…no leg to stand on and they get carried away ,then caught in their own web. But when “human rights” organizations are determined to believe the lies, if not for Honest Reporting, who would even notice?

I always believed truth will prevail . . . but no-one said how long that could take! WAKE UP WORLD! There are honest media sources available to break down the situation, and as commented below by Karen Suggs, it WOULD be a relief if mainstream media could discuss the motivations behind the children who are being “given” by their parents to “fight for their cause” under the belief that Allah will give Jena to the dead children . . . the highest state of grace. My highest form of grace is to keep ALL children safe from harm. Not so easy if many are being used as frontmen for terrorist factions to earn media sympathy.

These are not children as we know and appreciate . They at age 4 are already Jew haters and ready to kill given the weapon. Their indoctrination is complete and no peace treaty will cleanse their minds . They are a lost generation who will reek havoc.

“That is until Nidal, 44, a policeman, was killed in another air strike, this time on the Qassam mosque in Nusseirat refugee camp, in the early hours of Saturday, 9 August, as he prepared to attend dawn prayers.” with his Qassam rockets in hand, he and the other 3 launchers who were there.

The reason only children were hurt is because the parents “give” children to “fight” for their cause & Allah will give Jena to the dead children…the highest state of grace. It would be a relief if mainstream media could discuss motivations.